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May 16^th, 2003 at 1:44pm

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Just read on the Rage 3D site (May 14) about Visiontek announcing the availability of the XTASY 9800Pro 256MB 3D graphics accelerator......the first consumer graphics card to feature 256MB of DDR memory. Just when I was debating between the 9800Pro or GF4-4600Ti for my new system.....and wondering whether any of these higher end cards would even make that much of a difference with FS2k2 or any of my other older games!? ???

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Reply #1 - May 16^th, 2003 at 3:52pm

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It depends on the Ram bus speed. Sometimes 64mb cards are better than 128mb because they have faster ram. Think of it as a library. A huge one has all kinds of books but still has a card cataloge, a smaller one as lots of books too but has a fast computerized location system. Which one are you going to go to? However the 9800 is a fast card, (better than the GforceFX) so I think you'll see a major difference between that and what you've got.

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Reply #2 - May 21^st, 2003 at 8:37am

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if you want a high speed graphics card,buy a 9800pro ( wait for benchmark results to see ,if the 256mb-version is better). if you want a good mix between price and performance,buy a 9700pro. i don't recommend a GeForce FX for various reasons. and the GF4 TI is much too old.

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Reply #3 - May 27^th, 2003 at 10:00pm

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this is gonna turn out into a nvidia vs ati sorta battle haha Grin

im nvidia all the way

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Reply #4 - May 28^th, 2003 at 2:02am

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All I know on it, is that my MX 440 does me well for now......for the price........

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Reply #5 - May 29^th, 2003 at 8:01am

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this is gonna turn out into a nvidia vs ati sorta battle haha Grin

im nvidia all the way

hm,i think it'll turn out in "one against all"-battle. an i'm the lone ATI-guy... Grin

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Reply #6 - Jun 11^th, 2003 at 6:22am

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Vote 1 for an "old" TI 4200 which runs fs2002 as fast as I need. It was a third of the price of a new ATI card as well.

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Reply #7 - Jun 11^th, 2003 at 9:04am

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depends on what you want to play,for FS,a Ti4200 is sufficient,but for games like Unreal 2, you need a stronger graphics card (like an ATI 9700pro...lol!).

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